A critique Schellenberg’s model of primary and secondary values.
T.R Schellenberg worked in an American archive and shortly after the second world war he was overwhelmed by a huge influx of records which prompted him to devise a strategy of appraising records. The result was the appraisal of records using what he called records values, that is, primary and secondary values. In this article the author is going to critique Schellenberg’s model of primary and secondary values. Definition of Terms The author will define what the Schellenberg’s model of primary and secondary values is all about. According to Bettington (208:20-21) T.R. Schellenberg was a US Archivist who advocated that archivists needed to be involved in the selection of records of value to researchers.Bettington says Schellenberg devised a system of values to assist archivists in making appraisal decisions. Schellenberg explained that public archives have two types of values: a primary value to the original agency and secondary value to other agencies and non users. Schell